RC34 - Quality of Democracy2017-03-13T13:04:09-04:00urn:md5:772f6ba92baf4a26326269111805807bDotclearInternational Workshop - Accountability and Rule of Law: actual problems of democratic qualityurn:md5:c66cb770b725250ded9fe432518d3ada2017-03-13T08:58:00-04:002017-03-13T08:58:00-04:00Jose Verissimo<p><strong>The workshop will take place in Poland, at the University of Warsaw, on 13-14.10.2017</strong></p>
<p>The primary objective of the workshop is to determine at what moment and in what field (e.g. in executive, legislative, judicial, society) occur changes which in one country stimulate positive effects on the functioning of accountability and rule and law, while in another result in the emergence of numerous delays and growth in negative post-transformation phenomena.</p>
<p>We invite papers with conceptual focus as well as empirical analysis. Comparative studies are very welcome. Empirical studies should refer to cases where infringement of accountability endangers the quality of democracy.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Workshop Structure:</strong>&nbsp;Each paper giver (in total 10-12 participants) will serve as discussant for another paper. Each paper giver will be allocated 20 minutes to present the paper, the discussant 10 minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Costs:</strong>&nbsp;The organizers cover meals for all participants. There is no conference fee.</p>
<p><strong>Application procedure:</strong>&nbsp;Please submit an abstract of max. 200 words together with your &nbsp;academic affiliation to Agnieszka Bejma at <a href="mailto:qualityofdemocracy@gmail.com">qualityofdemocracy@gmail.com</a> until 15<sup>th</sup> of April 2017. &nbsp;Early applications are strongly encouraged, while submissions after the deadline will not be considered.</p> <p><em><strong>Conceptual Framework</strong></em></p>
<p>In most of the concepts of quality of democracy, accountability is ascribed a central role (see Beetham 2004, Diamond/Morlino 2005, Merkel 2010). Although conceptual approaches of democratic quality may differ, they mostly agree that rule of law and holding accountable of political actors is a vital requisite for democracies and a yardstick for evaluating the quality of democracy. Accountability and rule of law are terms eagerly employed not only by researchers focused on quality of democracy, but also by journalists and politicians.</p>
<p>Especially in the last decades, both – accountability and rule of law – are confronted with new challenges or development. Just to mention two issues: The emergence of fundamentalist terrorism revitalized the question of the balance of freedom and security. How can we evaluate the fact that France is continuing to be under emergency rule? Another aspect derives from the emergence of digital media and the questions if and to what degree government should steer or intervene in online communication (e.g. hate speech), and how legal aspects (privacy, author’s rights etc.) should be treated.</p>
<p>These challenges refer to established democracies as well as to young democracies. But the &nbsp;central question is if they react in a different way and if they choose different policy options. Moreover, we can observe infringements especially of accountability and rule of law in young democracies, see Central Eastern Europe, Latin America etc. &nbsp;However, how can we define the threshold between the reduction of quality of democracy and the process of incremental eroding of democratic institutions and procedures?</p>
<p>The primary objective of the workshop is to determine at what moment and in what field (e.g. in executive, legislative, judicial, society) occur changes which in one country stimulate positive effects on the functioning of accountability and rule and law, while in another result in the emergence of numerous delays and growth in negative post-transformation phenomena. In order to explain the causes of existing differences and similarities of the functioning of accountability and rule and law, it is important to examine the link between institutional solutions, policies implemented, and the time that passed from the moment of consolidation of political systems.</p>
<p><strong>Organizers:</strong></p>
<p>Marianne Kneuer, University of Hildesheim</p>
<p>Anna Sroka, Univesity of Warsaw</p>
<p>Małgorzata Kaczorowska, University of Warsaw</p>
<p>Agnieszka Bejma, University of Warsaw</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>International Conference - “Political Science in the Digital Age: Mapping Opportunities, Perils and Uncertainties”urn:md5:ddd605ffced62e46d558ea1f496e012b2017-03-02T08:43:00-05:002017-03-02T08:46:25-05:00Jose Verissimo<p><span class="im">The International Political Science Association (IPSA) is organizing an international conference that will be held on 4-6 December 2017 in Hannover, Germany. Chaired by Marianne Kneuer and Helen Milner, the conference will take place in Hannover’s Palace of Herrenhausen.</span></p>
<p><span class="im">More information about the Conference at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=pt-BR&amp;q=https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488547908535000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGahebWEdrIqxFBah_siaRxnfRc0g" href="https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/</a></span></p> <p><span class="im">The conference, entitled “Political Science in the Digital Age: Mapping Opportunities, Perils and Uncertainties”, provides the opportunity for a reflection on the discipline and one of its most relevant challenges, namely digitalization. The conference aims to bring together officials and members of the national Political Science Associations of IPSA and members the IPSA Research Committees in order to further develop networks and cooperation among these groups. The conference will also be a platform for addressing challenges as well as developing ideas for future research within IPSA.</span></p>
<p><br />
<span class="im">Please find the Call for Papers at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=pt-BR&amp;q=https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488547908535000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGahebWEdrIqxFBah_siaRxnfRc0g" href="https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hannover2017.ipsa.org/</a></span></p>RC 34 Perfomed a Seminar in Chile: “Quality of Democracy: NEW RESEARCH AGENDA”urn:md5:f44410619113c2414ffa6082e7fe6a5a2016-12-15T08:13:00-05:002016-12-15T08:13:53-05:00Jose VerissimoNew Board Compositionurn:md5:4a26a6afa773073d09719b330a7a53c62016-11-16T08:52:00-05:002017-02-06T07:34:34-05:00Jose Verissimo<h2>During the 24th World Congress in Poznan occurred last July, a new board was elected to rule the <strong>Research Committee on Quality of Democracy</strong>.</h2>
<h3><em><strong>We would like to invite all coleagues to send your papers, books and news about congresses and researches groups on the Quality of Democracy around the world to the e-mail IPSARC34@gmail.com so that we can publicize and share our experiences. </strong></em></h3>
<p>Best Wishes,</p>
<p>RC 34 Team</p> <p>The new Chair is Professor Marianne Kneuer, from Universität Hildesheim, Germany</p>
<p>More information about Professor Marianne can be found at<a href="https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/institut-fuer-sozialwissenschaften/mitglieder/professorinnen-und-professoren/prof-dr-kneuer/" hreflang="en" title="Professor Marianne Kneuer"> https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb1/institute/institut-fuer-sozialwissenschaften/mitglieder/professorinnen-und-professoren/prof-dr-kneuer/</a></p>
<p>The Vice-chair is Dr. Anna Sroka, from University of Warsaw, Poland</p>
<p>More information about Dr. Anna can be found at <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Sroka" hreflang="en" title="Dr. Anna Sroka">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Sroka</a></p>
<p>The new Secretary is Dr. Jesus Tovar, from Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México</p>
<p>More information about Dr. Jesus can be found at<a href="https://www.ipsa.org/organization/executive-commitee/tovar"> https://www.ipsa.org/organization/executive-commitee/tovar</a></p>
<p>The others members of the board are</p>
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<td height="20" style="height:20px;width:188px;">Agniezka Bejma</td>
<td style="width:433px;">University of Warsaw</td>
<td style="width:83px;">Poland</td>
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<td>University of South Africa</td>
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<td>Univertity of São Paulo</td>
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<td>Univertity of São Paulo</td>
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<td>Université Libre de Bruxelles</td>
<td>Brussels</td>
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<td>University of Warsaw</td>
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<td>University of Rajasthan</td>
<td>India</td>
<td>http://www.uniraj.ac.in/index.php?mid=4804&amp;did=332</td>
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</table>Call for Papers: Seminar Quality of Democracy: New Research Agendaurn:md5:0e5b3b0ee226f15f6c5ab5953f5bc1592016-04-11T02:59:00-04:002016-04-11T02:59:00-04:00Marianne Kneuer <p>The planed Seminar on “Quality of democracy in Latin America” aims at bringing together scholars in order to discuss theoretical as well as empirical challenges in the study of Latin American democratic quality. Contributions should relate to the exposed questions in single case or comparative studies or should address theoretical or methodological challenges regarding the study of quality of democracy in Latin America. The proposals should register in three items:</p>
<p>a) Democratic theory,<br />
b) Methodology about quality of democracy,<br />
c) Empirical research of democracies.</p>
<p>Please find the Call for Papers here:&nbsp;<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/Workshop_Chile.pdf">Workshop_Chile.pdf</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>Conference “Communication, Democracy and Digital Technology”, Rovinj (Croatia) | 2-3 October 2015urn:md5:afa0b26d5f79e2ee9f547a65fda5f8d32015-01-23T06:52:00-05:002015-01-23T07:13:58-05:00Aileen Bolling <p>RC 34 together with RC 10 (Electronic Democracy), RC 22 (Political Communication) and the University of Zaghreb will organize a conference on "Communication, Democracy and Digital Technology" in Rovinj (Croatia) from 2 to 3 October 2015.</p>
<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong><br /></p>
<p>Please find the Call for Papers <a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/CALL_FOR_PAPERS_-_RC10-22-34_Conference_MG.pdf">here</a>. <em>The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to <ins>31 January 2015</ins>!</em></p>
<p>The reviews will be completed and notifications sent by the end of February 2015. The registration will open on 1 March 2015. The registration will then also open for participants who will not be delivering a paper.</p>
<p><strong>More information about the conference</strong></p>
<p>We proudly announce that the conference will host Professor Guy Lachapelle, IPSA Secretary General who will deliver a keyote lecture. For excellent accommodation rates and early birds discount for conference participants check the <a href="http://www.fpzg.unizg.hr/en/ipsa_conference_croatia_2015#Local%20information." hreflang="en" title="Conference Website">conference website</a>.</p>
<p><strong>&gt;&gt;Please keep checking the conference website for all other information about registration, travel, news and program!&lt;&lt;</strong></p>IPSA 2014urn:md5:724988a06bb63eb6f8c779c9a2edf3bc2014-09-29T11:12:00-04:002014-09-29T11:12:00-04:00Aileen Bolling <p>We thank all members of Research Committee 34 for joining our panels on the IPSA World Congress 2014 in Montreal. It was a pleasure to discuss a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives on “Quality of Democracy” and to see that we could successfully continue the cooperative and productive work we started in this Committee in Madrid 2012.</p>
<p>All in all RC 34 hosted 15 interesting panels:
<a href="http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/panels-by-session/accepted/9000/all" title="http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/panels-by-session/accepted/9000/all">http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress...</a></p>
<p>Moreover, RC 34 hosted a panel on social media and quality of democracy together with RC 22 “Political Communication”.
<a href="http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/montreal2014/panel/social-media-and-their-influence-quality-democracy" title="http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/montreal2014/panel/social-media-and-their-influence-quality-democracy">http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/...</a></p>
<p>We are also happy to have attracted some new members in our research group. We hereby welcome them once again in our “<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/pages/First-Page-example">RC34 network</a>” .
Looking forward to the upcoming projects!</p>IPSA World Congress of Political Scienceurn:md5:dbeaf6be40f2f6d113f51fba629f30212013-09-24T08:15:00-04:002013-10-07T01:45:41-04:00Aileen Bolling <h2>Submitted Panels by RC 34 <br />
(<em>July 19 - July 24 2014, Montréal</em>)<br /></h2>
<p><br />
<strong>After 20 Years: The Quality of South African Democracy.</strong><br />
Discussants: Prof. Louwrens Pretorius</p>
<p><strong>Challenges of the Research on Executive-Legislative Balance of Power</strong><br />
Chair: Prof. José Álvaro Moisés<br />
Co-Chair: Prof. Marianne Kneuer<br />
Discussants: Prof. Daniela Piana</p>
<p><strong>Social Media and their Influence on the Quality of Democracy <br /></strong>
<strong><em>(Joint Panel RC 34 and RC 22)</em><br /></strong>
Chair: Prof. Marianne Kneuer <br />
Co-Chair: Prof. Oscar Luengo<br />
Discussant: Dr. Javier G. Marín<br />
<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/Panel_Proposal_IPSA_2014_Social_Media_and_their_Influence_on_the_Quality_of_Democracy.pdf">Call for papers</a></p>
<p><strong>Constitutional Democracy: One or Many</strong><br />
NN</p>
<p><strong>Deliberative democracy and social inequalities: from ideal to practice</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Didier Caluwaerts<br />
Discussants: Dr. Silvia Erzeel</p>
<p><strong>Democracy, Constitution-making and Uncertainty</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Cristine de Clercy <br />
Co-Chair: Dr. Peter Ferguson <br />
Discussants: Dr. Louis Imbeau</p>
<p><strong>Measuring Quality of Democracy in Comparative Politics</strong><br />
Convenors: Anja Mihr, Claudia Wiesner<br />
Chair: Prof. Anja Mihr, Utrecht University<br />
Co-Chair: Dr. Claudia Wiesner, Marburg University<br />
Discussant: NN</p>
<p><strong>Perspectives on the quality of democracy in Latin America</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Irma Mendez de Hoyos <br />
Co-Chair: Dr. Felipe Carlos Betancour<br />
Discussants: Dr. Jesus Tovar</p>
<p><strong>Quality of democracy and the contribution of ‘New Parties'</strong><br />
Convenors: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Silvana Krause<br />
Chair: Prof. Hans-Joachim Lauth<br />
Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Silvana Krause <br />
Discussant: N.N.</p>
<p><strong>Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Anna M. Sroka<br />
Discussants: Prof. Leonardo Morlino<br />
<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/Quality_of_Democracy_in_Eastern_Europe_Anna_Sroka.pdf">Call for Papers</a></p>
<p><strong>The Arquitecture of Diversity: Institutional Innovation and Conflict Management in Latin America</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Jorge Gordin<br />
Co-Chair: Mr. Fernando Rosenblatt</p>
<p><strong>Who governs? Is there a crisis of mature democracies?</strong><br />
Chair: Prof. Aurel Croissant <br />
Co-Chair: Prof .Wolfgang Merkel <br />
Discussants: Prof. Wolfgang Merkel</p>
<p><strong>Who is the postnational citizen in times of crisis?</strong><br />
Chair: Dr. Isabel Carvalhais <br />
Co-Chair: Prof. Isabel Camisão <br />
<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/Panel_Proposal_IPSA_2014_postnational_citizen_in_times_of_crisis.pdf">Call for Papers</a><br /></p>
<h3>Deadline to submit abstract/paper proposals: <br />
October 7, 2013</h3>
<p>Please find the IPSA Rules of Participation here:<a href="http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/submit-abstractpaper-proposal" title="http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress/montreal2014/submit-abstractpaper-proposal">http://www.ipsa.org/events/congress...</a></p>IPSA 2012urn:md5:984c84d212c60b69edb82267044a76572012-11-28T17:28:00-05:002013-01-18T03:58:12-05:00Aileen BollingEvents <p><em>Looking back on the IPSA 2012 conference in Madrid we thank all members of Research Committee 34 for their participation and their contribution, which resulted in fruitful discussions and an inspiring atmosphere.</em></p>
<p>One topic in our business meeting in Madrid was the technical implementation of a more attractive and functional website that serves the needs of a scientific network. Now, we are happy to present you an update of our RC34 website which from now on can be used as a tool of networking and collaborating.</p>
<p>After relaunching the website, it now consists of some more information concerning the RC34 network. You can find a list of those members that wish to publish fields of research as well as contact information in order to foster networking. Moreover, we aim to using the “<a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/pages/First-Page-example">RC34 network</a>” for sharing information about projects, publications and conferences on the topic of “quality of democracy”. Please let us know, if you want to make any proposals. You can therefore contact Aileen Bolling (research assistant of Marianne Kneuer), who will technically integrate it on the RC34 website. (aileen.bolling@uni-hildesheim.de)</p>
<p>In order to strengthen the visibility of our activities here you can find the <a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/public/Business_meeting.pdf">minutes of our business meeting</a>. Inter alia, it informs about the new personnel composition within the RC34 committee.
In our business meeting on IPSA 2012 <strong>José Alvares Moises</strong> was elected on the position of<strong> Chair</strong>,
<strong>Marianne Kneuer</strong> on the position of the <strong>Vice-Chair</strong> (for more information see <a href="http://rc34.ipsa.org/pages/Contact">contact</a>).
<strong>Daniela Piana</strong> was elected on the position of<strong> Secretary</strong>. After the election the Executive Committee now consists of:</p>
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<li>Dr. Anna M. Sroka: University of Warsaw Poland</li>
<li>Dr. Claudia Wiesner:Jyvaeskylae University (Finland) and Marburg University (Germany)</li>
<li>Dr. Rune Holmgaard: Institute of Government and Politics &amp; Andersen University of Tartu (Estonia)</li>
<li>Dr. Christiane de Paula: Fundacão Getulio Vargas FGV Brazil</li>
<li>Prof. Dr Jean Michel de Waele: Université Libre de Bruxelles</li>
<li>Dr. Ramona Coman: Université Libre de Bruxelles</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Looking forward to further productive cooperation!</em></p>Announcement and Missionurn:md5:aa937ee124b16a00f7bcc903d8e8807a2011-06-16T10:43:00-04:002011-06-16T10:43:00-04:00Daniela PianaNews <p>Proudly Announcing
The new IPSA
Research Committee 34
Quality of Democracy</p>
<p>IPSA is pleased to announce the launch of the new research committee on Quality of Democracy (RC 34)</p>
<p>This new research committee wants to cast new light on the empirical analysis of quality of democracy and wants to provide scholars with a new “space” in which they can meet and share methodological and empirical works aiming to deep our understanding of the mechanisms that lead democratic processes, such a changes, subversions, anchoring, etc..</p>
<p>Analyses of democratic regimes have been part of the core agenda in comparative politics since long ago and have known a much larger and comprehensive development over the last four decades since the beginning of the so called third wave of democratization. While research has been vastly enriched on transition from democracy, on favourable and less favourable conditions, and on what makes democracy endure, we are only beginning to explore this new space of analyzing the quality of democracy.</p>
<p>The RC 34 on one side recalls key traditional problems of democratic regimes such as: How rulers can be held accountable to ruled? How responsive policy making can contribute to a more accountable government? To what extent equality and freedom are related? These are some of the research questions that have been recast and have been profoundly reshaping the traditional empirical theory of democracy as a consequence of the spread of democracies in all areas of the world over the last 60 years, but especially since the early 1970s, leading to renewed interest in classic political science topics such as elections, parties, civil society, institutions and institutional design, decision making, policies and their implementation.</p>
<p>In a further step we want to focus new questions and perspectives: What are the reasons for a declining quality of democracy and where can it lead to? What are essential aspects of improving democratic quality? Moreover, the more recently historical and systemic analysis of democratic regimes found a common ground in the democratic quality assessment stream. The RC 34 involves an innovative analytical and methodological proposal which keeps altogether both qualitative and quantitative analyses to the democratic assessment and it is epistemologically committed to cast a comparative perspective on all types of democracy.</p>
<p>Taking into account the political changes towards democracy in the period between 1974 and today the purpose of this new Research Committee is to explore what theoretical developments are possible in the analysis of this widespread and important phenomenon, in order to respond to a number of questions that are both highly relevant and still debated, but which have yet to be answered in an adequate and satisfactory manner.</p>
<p>Actions taken by the RC 34 will cover both networking, research coordination, and dissemination.
Contact
You can contact the RC 34 at the following chairs' and vice-chair addresses.
CHAIRS
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer
University of Hildesheim
Institute for Social Sciences
Professor for Comparative Politics
Marienburger Platz 22
D - 31141 Hildesheim Germany
Tel.: 0049-5121-883-512
kneuer@uni-hildesheim.de</p>
<p>Prof. Dr. Jean Michel De Waele
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Dean
44 Avenue Jeanne
B - 1050 Brussels Belgium
Tel.: 0032-2 650 39 03
jmdewaele@ulb.ac.be</p>
<p>Prof. Dr José Álvaro Moisés
University of São Paulo Department of Political Science
Professor for Democratic Theory
Center for Public Policy Research Dean
Av Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 315
Cidade Universitaria Sao Paulo CEP 05508900
Brazil
Tel (55-11) 30913272
jamoises@gmail.com jamoises@usp.br
VICE-CHAIR
Dr. Daniela Piana
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Political Sciences
University of Bologna
Strada Maggiore
45 40100 Bologna
Italy
Tel.: 0039 051 209 27 12
d.piana@unibo.it; danielapiana@hotmail.com</p>NEW! RC 34 Calls for Papersurn:md5:cf33821cc9f4b5356cb47834301d4f102011-05-21T11:56:00-04:002011-05-21T11:56:00-04:00Daniela PianaNews <p>Research Committee 34: Quality of Democracy
IPSA-QoD</p>
<p>WORKSHOP ON THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY
IPSA WORLD CONGRESS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
MADRID (SPAIN)
JULY 2012</p>
<p>CALL FOR PAPERS
The IPSA Research Committee 34 on the Quality of Democracy (IPSA-QoD) is organizing a Workshop on the Recent Research Developments on the Quality of Democracy which will be held in Madrid on July 2012, during the IPSA World Congress. The workshop aims at examining the recent comparative research and analysis of existing democracies as systems of qualities on the basis of a comprehensive multi-dimensional framework, and at spreading off empirical and methodological knowledge produced by this new cross-cultural approach. The workshop is planned to target both methodology and empirical research and will address both the systemic and the historical dimensions of new and old democracies.
Analyses of the democratic regime have been part of the core agenda in comparative politics since long ago and have known a much larger and comprehensive development over the last four decades since the beginning of the so called third wave of democratization. Southern European democracies, Eastern and Central European democracies, and Latin American transitions offered the empirical field that allowed researchers to exam fundamental mechanisms and patterns of change which are featuring democratization processes “in context”. Democratic theory is a central component of contemporary theoretical development of political scholarship and supports the empirical field that comparative political scientists have been incline to consider. More recently historical and systemic analysis of democratic regimes found a common ground in the democratic quality assessment stream. This approach involves an innovative analytical and methodological proposal which keeps altogether both qualitative and quantitative analyses to the democratic assessment and it is epistemologically committed to cast a comparative perspective on all types of democracy.
The workshop is therefore planned to exam the empirical analysis of democratic processes drawing lessons from the well known scholarly tradition of the democratic theory and endorsing the multi-dimensional view of democracy which has been progressively worked out by recent research assessing the quality and changes of existing democracies.
Information about the workshop theme and the submission form for paper proposals, please contact:
RC34 Vice-Chair: Daniela Piana, d.piana@unibo.it
The deadline for submission of paper proposals is 1st July 2011.</p>
<p>IPSA WORLD CONGRESS 8TH-12TH JULY 2012
IPSA-QoD will also organize at least two general panels at the IPSA World Congress in Madrid from 8-12th July 2012. Proposals for papers for the general panels are welcome concerning the above mentioned themes.
The business meeting held at this event will help to initiate activities, elect officers, and expand the membership of RC.
The main theme of the Madrid IPSA World Congress is 'Reshaping power, shifting boundaries'.
Details are available at www.IPSA.org.</p>